SSLv3 and POODLE Security Vulnerability

Checkout Credit Card Processing and SSL

It has been reported that there is a vulnerability using SSLv3
for secure browsing and online communications. When using a
browser or when two applications or servers speak to each-other
securely over the internet, they do this on a secure socket using
encryption methods like SSL or TLS. These methods encrypt
messages being sent between your browser (or an embedded browser
within an application like Checkout) or between an application and
a server.
To learn more about the vulnerability and what SSL is, this article
from Forbes does a nice job laying out it.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jameslyne/2014/10/15/poodle-security-vulnerability-breaks-sslv3-secure-browsing/

Due to this new vulnerability that has been reported, Forte who
provides the gateway used for processing your credit card
transactions, will be sunsetting the support of the SSLv3 method of
creating a secure connection to their servers. A more up to
date method will used for creating these connections which is
called TLS.

When Checkout processes credit card transactions, you are
entering a credit card number to process a transaction (or to store
it on Forte's secure servers for future use) on Forte's securely
hosted form. We display this web page/form to the user using
a browser window that is essentially embedded within Checkout (we
don't launch your browser). We are working on ensuring that the
browser technology that we use when displaying these forms is up to
date to support the latest TLS methods.

It is recommended that you ensure that you are using up to date
and supported versions of your browsers and operating systems.